recent ifconfig change [was: Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits]

[Hubert Feyrer <feyrer%rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de@localhost>]

Hi Jason,

On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, The Source of All Evil wrote:
> Also, rewrite the way media words are displayed.  The status display now
> looks like this:
> 
> bishop:thorpej 137$ ifconfig -m fxp0
> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT)
>         status: active
>         supported media:
>                 Ethernet autoselect
>                 Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex>
>                 Ethernet 100baseTX
>                 Ethernet 10baseT <full-duplex>
>                 Ethernet 10baseT
>                 Ethernet 100baseTX <loopback>
>         inet 129.99.50.41 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 129.99.50.255
> bishop:thorpej 138$ 

I wonder how one switches between full and half duplex modes with ifconfig
- do i have to attached the " <full-duplex>" to the media string:
        ifconfig "100baseTX <full-duplex>"?


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer%rz.uni-regensburg.de@localhost>